{"product_id":"we-who-love-to-be-astonished-experimental-womens-writing-and-performance-poetics-modern-contemporary-poetics-series","title":"We Who Love to Be Astonished : Experimental Women's Writing and Performance Poetics (Modern Contemporary Poetics Series)","description":"The first critical volume devoted to the full range of womens postmodern works We Who Love to Be Astonished collects a powerful group of previously unpublished essays to fill a gap in the critical evaluation of womens contributions to postmodern experimental writing. Contributors include Alan Golding  Aldon Nielsen  and Rachel Blau DuPlessis; discussions include analyses of the work of Kathleen Fraser  Harryette Mullen  and Kathy Acker  among others. The editors take as their title a line from the work of Lyn Hejinian  one of the most respected of innovative women poets writing today. The volume is organized into four sections: the first two seek to identify  from two different angles  the ways women of different sociocultural backgrounds are exploring their relationships to their cultures inherited traditions; the third section investigates the issue of visuality and the problems and challenges it creates; and the fourth section expands on the role of the body as material and performance. The collection will breach a once irreconcilable divide between those who theorize about womens writing and those who focus on formalist practice. By embracing \"astonishment\" as the site of formalist-feminist investigation  the editors seek to show how form configures feminist thought  and  likewise  how feminist thought informs words and letters on a page. Students and scholars of avant-garde poetry  womens writing  and late-20th-century American literature will welcome this lively discussion.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44918973104181,"sku":"ByrdShop_0817310959","price":91.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0817310959_3e6b8b65-1e80-4f84-a8fa-caaaad546e1c.jpg?v=1772666506","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/we-who-love-to-be-astonished-experimental-womens-writing-and-performance-poetics-modern-contemporary-poetics-series","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}